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and the atm and the tax taxes, reduce dividend and capital gains taxes. that's 6 trillion. what he's saying tonight is he's going to pay for it by closing loopholes or preferences but won't tell you which ones. maybe the chain can capitalize on that as john said earlier, but i think it does beg the question, why couldn't barack obama capitalize on that. >> rose: kathy, you wanted to say something. >> charlie i was wondering halfway through the debate whether the campaign had made a strategic decision, the likability advantage that the president has is so valuable to them that they didn't want to jeopardize that by him attacking mitt romney and coming across as unlikeable or less likeable, becausyou know it was astonishing that he didn't go after mitt romney. i was just talking to david -- in the room just a couple minutes ago, he made the case far more convincingly, far more aggressively and concisely for what president obama was trying to lay out the next four years than obama himself did up on the stage. i mean there was just time and again mitt romney managed to seize th
and the atm and the tax taxes, reduce dividend and capital gains taxes. that's 6 trillion. what he's saying tonight is he's going to pay for it by closing loopholes or preferences but won't tell you which ones. maybe the chain can capitalize on that as john said earlier, but i think it does beg the question, why couldn't barack obama capitalize on that. >> rose: kathy, you wanted to say something. >> charlie i was wondering halfway through the debate whether the campaign had made a...
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>> he proposes a 20% across-the- board tax cuts. >> marginal tax rate. >> alternative minimum tax. he proposes tax deductions in real-estate to reduce the deficits. what this means is, over time, $45 llion ovethe next deca. >> we are running short on time. the dough and paul debate. >> this is a deadly earnest. how they can justify raising taxes on the middle-class, who have been buried the last four years. how, in lord's name, can they justify raising their taxes? >> vice-president biden just today said that the middle-class over the last of we were years has been ". ." we agree. that means we need to stop digging by electing mitt romney the next president of the united states. >> what did you think, jonathan? >> you talk to a lot of folks in the romney campaign and they say joe biden is the gift that keeps on giving. you saw him pause when he said four years. i think he meant to say the last 10 years, and it came out wrong. this is fodder for the obama campaign. it will not change, i do not think, in a huge way, the course of events, buthere is no question the obama campaign folk
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federal income tax, federal payroll tax, state income tax, state sales tax, state property tax, gasoline tax tadd up to well over 50% of what they earned. and your plan is to take the tax rate on successful small businesses from 35% to 40%. the national federation of independent businesses has said that will cost 700,000 jobs. i don't want to cost jobs. my priority is jobs. and so what i do is i bring down the tax rates, lower deductions and exemptions, the same idea behin bowles-simpson, get the rate down, lower deductions and exemptions to create more jobs because there's nothing better getting us to a balanced budget than having more people working, earning more money, paying more taxes, that's by far the most effective and efficient way to get this budget balanced. >> jim you may want to move on to another topic but i would like to say this to the american people, if you believe we can cut taxes by $5 trillion and add $2 trillion in additional spending that the military is not asking for, $7 trillio just to give you a sense over 10 years, that's more than our entire defense budget, a
federal income tax, federal payroll tax, state income tax, state sales tax, state property tax, gasoline tax tadd up to well over 50% of what they earned. and your plan is to take the tax rate on successful small businesses from 35% to 40%. the national federation of independent businesses has said that will cost 700,000 jobs. i don't want to cost jobs. my priority is jobs. and so what i do is i bring down the tax rates, lower deductions and exemptions, the same idea behin bowles-simpson, get...
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tax reform is hard. the tax code will be00 years old less year and we have had less than a handful of comprehensive reforms as a going-in proposition, it's hard to do. >> i have sympathy for wh doug said as well. however here's the thing i watched the debate with a bunch of students out of notre dame university and there was a ton of head scratching going on. i want to quote some of the things the governor said. >> brown: it's a good school so there should be smart students. >> he said "i will not reduce the taxes paid by high income americans. i will not reduce the taxes paid by high income americans." now this is a guy who's going around saying i'm going to have a very large tax cut. >> brown: what does that mean, do you think there? >> what it means is that mitt romney makes a real distinction between cuts in tax rates and cuts in tax liability cuts in what you have to pay the i.r.s. what he's saying is to the wealthy folks we'll cut your rates but raise your deductions so your taxes will be the same.
tax reform is hard. the tax code will be00 years old less year and we have had less than a handful of comprehensive reforms as a going-in proposition, it's hard to do. >> i have sympathy for wh doug said as well. however here's the thing i watched the debate with a bunch of students out of notre dame university and there was a ton of head scratching going on. i want to quote some of the things the governor said. >> brown: it's a good school so there should be smart students....
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true tax reform has the effect of lowering tax rates for everybody, but all these special interest groups, precious loopholes and deductions -- i am on the general public's side, i am against the interest groups in washington. if he proposes that, that is a true thing and that could work in the end. >> not to rob the obama people of credit for their advertising campaign, but let me remind you, these wounds have been self- inflicted. you want to get $10,000, rick perry? ann drives a couple of cadillacs. we're building a car elevator in our home. i like to fire people these were all voluntarily offered by mitt romney. >> and he has taken responsibility for that. >> the reason he does not lay out what you say is, among other things, there are studies that disputed, and people will say, you are going to take away mortgage tax deductions? suddenly everybody is up in arms. >> not necessarily true. you can say th anybody over a certain amount can only deduct up to 2% of income -- >> now you are into the weeds. >> it is not the week, it is the facts. >> that's get into the weeds. >> are you makin
true tax reform has the effect of lowering tax rates for everybody, but all these special interest groups, precious loopholes and deductions -- i am on the general public's side, i am against the interest groups in washington. if he proposes that, that is a true thing and that could work in the end. >> not to rob the obama people of credit for their advertising campaign, but let me remind you, these wounds have been self- inflicted. you want to get $10,000, rick perry? ann drives a couple...
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it entirely with their tax deductions so we either have to increase taxes on the middle class or he would have to have his tax plan add to the deficit and he hasn't been willing to say where he compromised. >> rose: that's where the rubber meets the ground for him. >> though those are all totally legitimate critiques of governor romney's plan, but i think the governor romney is being held to kind of a double standard on these things. i mean, candidate obama opposed an individual mandate on healthcare and got into office and saw the realty reality of where the votes were and decided he was for an individual mandate. >> candidate obama won't tell us what he wants to do on social security and what his ideas are for a grand bargain with the republicans, so i think governor romney on this point, yes, if you take strictly what he said and what he hasn't said it is not cle how itdds up but don't think there any mystery that if he not elected his tax plan would be, would resellable this but there is a way to swear some of the inconsistencies and fill in some of the holes and maybe there wouldn't
it entirely with their tax deductions so we either have to increase taxes on the middle class or he would have to have his tax plan add to the deficit and he hasn't been willing to say where he compromised. >> rose: that's where the rubber meets the ground for him. >> though those are all totally legitimate critiques of governor romney's plan, but i think the governor romney is being held to kind of a double standard on these things. i mean, candidate obama opposed an individual...
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wealthy huge new tax breaks? because, according to experts, he'd have to raise taxes on the middle class, or increase the deficit to pay for it. if we can't trust him here, how can we ever trust him here? >> brown: meanwhile, on the fox news channel last night, romney reversed course on his remark that 47% of americans don't pay taxes and, in his words, are dependent on government, so he couldn't worry about them and their votes. >> in this case, i said something that's just completely wrong. and i absolutely believe, however, that mlife hashown that i care about the 100% and that has been demonstrated throughout my life. this whole campaign is about the 100%. when i become president, it'll be about helping the 100%. >> brown: still, president obama was having none of it. >> from the day we began this campaign, we've always said that real change takes time. it takes more than one year or one term, or even one president. it takes more than one party. it certainly can't happen if you're willing to write off half th
wealthy huge new tax breaks? because, according to experts, he'd have to raise taxes on the middle class, or increase the deficit to pay for it. if we can't trust him here, how can we ever trust him here? >> brown: meanwhile, on the fox news channel last night, romney reversed course on his remark that 47% of americans don't pay taxes and, in his words, are dependent on government, so he couldn't worry about them and their votes. >> in this case, i said something that's just...
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he cannot cut tax rates, cut taxes on the middle class, cut taxes on capital gains, and balance the budget all at once. >> reporter: romney advisers have said they would consider eliminating tax breaks on at least two forms of saving, life insurance and muni bonds. and the governor's supporters argue tax cuts generate enough growth to offset some of their cost. >> people can have reasonable disagreements about the magnitude of that growth effect, but to assume that it is zo, i think, is wrong. and once you relax that assumption, then, all of a sudden, other things start to be possible. >> reporter: but it's hard to be sure about the impact of tax cuts on the economy, which is why the experts in congress and the treasury who are responsible for estimating the cost of tax changes generally ignore the impact of tax reforms on the entire economy. darren gersh, nbr, washington. >> susie: here on wall street, traders and investors were taking a fresh look at stock sectors today, assessing what a romney or obama win would mean for the markets. so a lot of talk about minutes from the latest federa
he cannot cut tax rates, cut taxes on the middle class, cut taxes on capital gains, and balance the budget all at once. >> reporter: romney advisers have said they would consider eliminating tax breaks on at least two forms of saving, life insurance and muni bonds. and the governor's supporters argue tax cuts generate enough growth to offset some of their cost. >> people can have reasonable disagreements about the magnitude of that growth effect, but to assume that it is zo, i...
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>> such as reforming social security, medicare, higher taxes, lower taxes? >> yes. and onhe table are all sorts of things that many people value a great deal and we may not be able to afford anymore. so should we have deductibility for second home mortgages? should we have deductibility for high-cost homes? should we have health insurance coverage provided by employers continue to be deductible? if so, for whom, should it be for all? and should we raise the age of entitlement, if so, to what level?" when someone says that about social programs, i want to also hear the answer to the question, "what are you doing with military spending? and how do you justify the tradeoff? we've gotta get the revenue someplace. where are you willing to cut? and if not, why not? when you're putting really valued things on the table. and simply saying that the wealthy are going to pay more doesn't solve the problem. the wealthy are going to need to pay more, but so is what most people define as the middle class, and there are going to be cuts across the board, including the military, i
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the tax system should be chaiked to raise taxes on the top brackets. two-thirds of americans agree in almost every poll to those numbers so there is sentiment to chan things. but there's not anger in any kind of rebellious sense of word. in fact there's not even the same kind of anger that promptedded the middle class to protest back in the '60s and '70s. >> suarez: there are tons of books covering this era that take a cut of it just as a political story or just as an economic story or even as a cultural story. the story you're trying to tell here needs to be all those things. i think you're saying you have to look at it all in an interlocking way to understand it. >> absolutely. such a good point you're making here. what we forgot was that middle class prosperity, economics, depended on middle class power. politics. and today this gross inequality that you see in income is accompanied by a starkly unequal democracy. symbolized by the super pacs, symbolized by the fact that business, lobbyists... business spends 65 times as much money on lobbyists as l
the tax system should be chaiked to raise taxes on the top brackets. two-thirds of americans agree in almost every poll to those numbers so there is sentiment to chan things. but there's not anger in any kind of rebellious sense of word. in fact there's not even the same kind of anger that promptedded the middle class to protest back in the '60s and '70s. >> suarez: there are tons of books covering this era that take a cut of it just as a political story or just as an economic story or...
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most americans to fund tax cuts for the wealthy. >> how they can justify raising taxes on the middle class has been buried the last four years. how in lord's name can they justify raising their taxes with these taxuts? look, folks, we've seen this movie before. massive tax cuts for the wealthy. eliminating restrictions on wall street. let the banks write their own rules. we know where it ends. it ends in a catastrophe of the middle class and the great recession of 2008. folks, we cannot go back to that. >> woodruff: the republican national committee and the romney campaign seized on biden's remark about the middle class. they called it a "stunning admission" that the president's policies have been bad for the economy and the middle class. but biden-- at his next stop, in asheville, north carolina-- said what has buried the middle class is the result of policies that romney and ryan are supporting. in clinton, iowa, vice presidential nominee paul ryan said a romney administration would help more americans find jobs. >> we have a jobs crisis in america. wouldn't it be nice to have a jo
most americans to fund tax cuts for the wealthy. >> how they can justify raising taxes on the middle class has been buried the last four years. how in lord's name can they justify raising their taxes with these taxuts? look, folks, we've seen this movie before. massive tax cuts for the wealthy. eliminating restrictions on wall street. let the banks write their own rules. we know where it ends. it ends in a catastrophe of the middle class and the great recession of 2008. folks, we cannot...
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is our outlook is that we think capital spending will pick up once there's clarity with respect to tax policy and deficit spending. and until we see that, there will be a holdback, which there has been in capital spending. after the election those issues should be resolved so we're looking for very robust 2013 market wise. the other piece of this is we really have not had a steady inflow in equity funds since 07 defight the market performance. and that's not true of fixed income, we expect that to actually come to fruition. >> tom: okay. some money to come off out of fixed income maybe into stocks, with sei. >> absolutely. >> tom: let's take a look at your previous picks, right after valentine's day february 15 we saw you, american capital a private equity public trad company up 30% plus. city national up 9%. do you still like these? >> definitely. believe it or not, american capital still trading at three times earnings, despite its appreciation. and it's a perfect play on mid cap companies in the u.s. and certainly monies cheap too. so it's a great way to play the recovery. >> tom: m
is our outlook is that we think capital spending will pick up once there's clarity with respect to tax policy and deficit spending. and until we see that, there will be a holdback, which there has been in capital spending. after the election those issues should be resolved so we're looking for very robust 2013 market wise. the other piece of this is we really have not had a steady inflow in equity funds since 07 defight the market performance. and that's not true of fixed income, we expect that...
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this is a tax in itself -- the economy tax. gasoline prices have doubled under the president, electric rates are up, food prices are up, health-care costs have gone up by $2,500 per family. the question is how to get them going again. it is energy and trade. the right kind of training programs. the president mentioned those ideas. education. it is key. it is the future of our economy. we have 47 training programs. they are reporting to eight agencies. we have to get those dollars back to the states and to the workers so they can create pathways into training they need for jobs that will help them. taxation. we should bring the tax rates down. for corporations and individuals. for us not to lose revenue, i lowered deductions and credits and intentions so we keep taking in the same money when you account for growth. energy is critical. the president pointed out that production of oil and gas in the u.s. is up but not due to his policies -- in spite of his policies. all of the increase in natural gas and oil has happened on privat
this is a tax in itself -- the economy tax. gasoline prices have doubled under the president, electric rates are up, food prices are up, health-care costs have gone up by $2,500 per family. the question is how to get them going again. it is energy and trade. the right kind of training programs. the president mentioned those ideas. education. it is key. it is the future of our economy. we have 47 training programs. they are reporting to eight agencies. we have to get those dollars back to the...
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more huge tax breaks skewed to the wealthy. while cutting nearly eight hundred billion from medicaid... even though middle-class families rely on medicaid to help loved ones cover nursing-home care. and it helps parents support children with disabilities. if mitt romney really "cares," wouldn't we see it in his priorities? . >>> top 10 in e.r.a. and strikeouts today, the nats geo gonzalez was recognized as the best left-handed picture -- pitcher in baseball. next time, he'll take to sunday's game, one of the nlds against the cardinals or braves. yes, the nats have home field advantage after wednesday's win and that is a 2-3 form at, meaning the first two are on the road. yesterday, ryan zimmerman last the home crowd, 25 runs on the season for him and michael morris teed off as well for the team's 98th win and that is a 95-1 final. the orioles -- orioles game didn't go as well and that is because of what he needed to get out of the season and he hit two home runs and three yesterday. the top 4-1, meaning baltimore visits the tex
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be a 20% tax cut? >> i'm going to lower rates across the board for all americans by 20%. i want a 20% across the board reduction in taxes. the individual marginal tax rate 20% across the board. the top rate, for instance, would go from 35 to 28, middle rates would come down by 20% as well, all rates come down. >> president obama was just as surprised. >> well, for 18 months he's been running on this tax plan. and now, five weeks before the election, he's saying that his big, bold idea is never mind. >> but the etch a sketching did not stop there. governor romney who once believed financial regulation was hurting the economy -- >> dodd frank it's called, has not helped enterprise get going, it's slowed it down. >> now seems to be a supporter of wall street regulation. >> want to repeal dodd/frank? >> and replace it. we're not going to get rid of regulation. some parts of dodd/frank that make all of the sense in the world. >> and back in june, romney mocked the president's crazy ideas about needing more
be a 20% tax cut? >> i'm going to lower rates across the board for all americans by 20%. i want a 20% across the board reduction in taxes. the individual marginal tax rate 20% across the board. the top rate, for instance, would go from 35 to 28, middle rates would come down by 20% as well, all rates come down. >> president obama was just as surprised. >> well, for 18 months he's been running on this tax plan. and now, five weeks before the election, he's saying that his big,...
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promised so it's the estate tax plus a.m.t. plus keeping bush, plus lowering rates plus cutting capital gains taxes. you put them together, they add up to 5 trillion but in romney's mind his plan may be just saving the bush tax cuts or one of these five. >> what obama has done is landfalled onto a study that says because the math doesn't add up according to th experts, therefore what romney is going to do is raise taxes on the middle class. he goes around saying that as if it was romney's intent. that's not romney's intent. romney god -- got to say the president is the one who's not telling the truthecaui woul do . >> a romney advisor last week said we have two goals. one is deficit reduction, one is tax cuts. cuts ie w we'll do deficit reduction. gwen: there's anoth numbe $716 million to deal with medicare but it's coming from different places and going to different places and trefore th fin - of de u in a draw. >> for the president's health care plan, in order to fund it they assumed savings over 10 years of $716 billion for
promised so it's the estate tax plus a.m.t. plus keeping bush, plus lowering rates plus cutting capital gains taxes. you put them together, they add up to 5 trillion but in romney's mind his plan may be just saving the bush tax cuts or one of these five. >> what obama has done is landfalled onto a study that says because the math doesn't add up according to th experts, therefore what romney is going to do is raise taxes on the middle class. he goes around saying that as if it was romney's...
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if you look at the chart, you can see that the most income from our taxes come from individual taxes. the third bar is corporate taxes and you can see the 7.9%. now, we have about $200 billion from corporate taxes. that is how much our government received from corporations. that was for prfits in the year 2011. $2 trillion. if you can figure it out, that's a 10% tax rate. in other words, there are so many deducons and special deals for the high rollers, the big people. even at 35%, we don't get a good deal. neil: mitt romney got in trouble when he tried to clarify just that view. but i'm not going to lower taxes as much as you think, i'm going to get rid of a lot of deductions and he left himself open to critics who said wait a minute, you were tax cuts are worth the paper they are printed on. but the goal is to get to a simpler tax code that when you takout some of the extraneous write-offs and allowances, credits, etc., and that he will get it something that makes it a black-and-white case,. >> and there is a question which is why don't politicians wanted. you would assume that they
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mitt romney and common sense conservatives will cut taxes on the middle class. and they'll close loopholes for millionaires. obama and his liberal allies? we can't afford four more years. [ romney] i'm mitt romney and i approve this message. >> live and in hd, this is abc 7 breaking news. [inaudible] >> breaking news is coming in washington.st seven residents were rescued by firefighters. people may soon be searching for e to wait -- to live. tom roussey has the first report of there. now live. >> workers are still out here up the scene tonight. a fire department has not the official cause of the fire. you where it started. started on a second-floor apartment. have since put plywood on e window there. was from the third floor tore a number of folks had be rescued. one man fell. in this video shot by a thehbor, you could see the threeoting out of story apartment building. people on the scene say it was chaos. >> we ran inside to get the people out. >> this man and several others make sure everyone was safe. the the rescuers needed to be themselves. >> i could fee
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well on the tax cut pointed particular i think rachel's point is an interesting one essentially agree with her that voters watching the debate in the moment are not going to be particularly fascinated by the minutiae of tax policy group but what i would say about the printer is that a lot of the time it's actually the post debate discussion that matters a lot and for maine public perceptions of these things and already today we're seeing the obama chair. again really driving hard at that precise point at the point that romney has not and fact really stipulated with great clarity how he will make this measure revenue neutral what loopholes he will close and i think those are the kind of things that the obama campaign is really frankly clinging on to you at the moment in an attempt to make this debate a little bit of an engine for their candidate than it first appeared to be you know david i think was very interesting is that even on the thing you know it's interesting is that the or obama said they wouldn't they wouldn't be beholden to the fact checkers you know do you think they're go
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yeah yeah i think he he was he was certainly enlarging the truth on his tax plans and on what he was saying about obamacare medicare he has got some explaining to do over the coming days and weeks because he this is one of the problems with romney that he does play fast and loose with the fact sometimes it's government trouble before i think the question is how hard you are on him on these you know how how serious those mistakes are and where the you concentrate more on the style of barmah because that's what he's now got to make up rather than getting too wonky again to sort of pointy headed academic but sure there's got to be there's going to be some explaining and also you know the the big difference in. their present facts is that a farmer is still trying to help the less well off and romney is trying to help the better better off that fact needs to be delineated i don't know whether you would agree with that maybe used you all i mean rather than saying aided by romney's you know his newfound affection for the no i think it's a very good point rachel do you want to handle that i
yeah yeah i think he he was he was certainly enlarging the truth on his tax plans and on what he was saying about obamacare medicare he has got some explaining to do over the coming days and weeks because he this is one of the problems with romney that he does play fast and loose with the fact sometimes it's government trouble before i think the question is how hard you are on him on these you know how how serious those mistakes are and where the you concentrate more on the style of barmah...
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here goes a message to donors, "barack obama is out again spending your tax dollars." two things about that. the fed is actually reducing the deficit and making huge profits returning record amounts of money to the treasury as a result of previous quantitative easing, so it's the opposite of spending your tax dollars. the fed a legally independent and ran by a guy originally appointed by george w. bush. this is just so completely over the top that we decided to do a piece on that particular email. pretty much, these messages to true believers have to exceed what we have already the bonds before we pay attention to them. we are out of time. thank you all for your attention. thank you for your questions. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> monday, a citizen's guide to the 2012 presidential debate from the national communications association panel looking at the hours of the debates coming up next month. live coverage begins at 1:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> you established a third
here goes a message to donors, "barack obama is out again spending your tax dollars." two things about that. the fed is actually reducing the deficit and making huge profits returning record amounts of money to the treasury as a result of previous quantitative easing, so it's the opposite of spending your tax dollars. the fed a legally independent and ran by a guy originally appointed by george w. bush. this is just so completely over the top that we decided to do a piece on that...
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policy center explain that look these tax cuts no i'm serious i mean i didn't understand anybody had just me and i wasn't paying twenty percent go ahead well no no well i don't think he really understood the this is the thing or at least he hasn't shown that he does and this is what's confusing to a lot of people who are trying to understand all the bouncing ball and he's talking about basically a twenty percent federal task which he hopes to to make or says he will make revenue neutral by then closing some loopholes and deductions but the biggest deduction i can think of is is maybe mortgage credit and that sort of thing and i don't think you could ever come up with a number of mortgage credit actions that will make up for a twenty percent cut in revenue for the federal government so i think barack obama's trying to get at that equation you saying look the math doesn't work but the problem is that romney said it does you know read it talks about tax policy about like it was just like why don't you get this and the average person might be saying there is where mitt romney actually ha
policy center explain that look these tax cuts no i'm serious i mean i didn't understand anybody had just me and i wasn't paying twenty percent go ahead well no no well i don't think he really understood the this is the thing or at least he hasn't shown that he does and this is what's confusing to a lot of people who are trying to understand all the bouncing ball and he's talking about basically a twenty percent federal task which he hopes to to make or says he will make revenue neutral by then...
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they want people to say to them, here is my specifics as to how it will help you and help tax reform is going to help you. here's how health care reform the mitt romney will help you specifically as a woman. a lot of these economic reformss o have very unique benefits fos n because of the role that they play in the economy. gerri: women, men, and family and all of the above. appreciate your time, kimberly. come back again soon. well, a victory in pennsylvania for democrats. a judge has blocd the state new election day. democrats said the requirement was an attempt to defeat president obama and republicans claimed it was to prevent voter fraud. meanwhile,n all-important state of ohio, early voting kicked off today. people able to vote by mail or in person without having to give a reason. if you are fired up about this or any other issues, drop me an e-mail at gerri@foxbussiness.com. >> coming up on "the willis report", the economy at a crossroads with the fiscal cliff looming. but it delayed a housing crisis as well? our panelists duke it out next. and high frequency trading. we have
they want people to say to them, here is my specifics as to how it will help you and help tax reform is going to help you. here's how health care reform the mitt romney will help you specifically as a woman. a lot of these economic reformss o have very unique benefits fos n because of the role that they play in the economy. gerri: women, men, and family and all of the above. appreciate your time, kimberly. come back again soon. well, a victory in pennsylvania for democrats. a judge has blocd...
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one is deficit reduction, one is tax cuts. if tax cuts get in the way, we'll do deficit reduction. gwen: there's another number. $716 million to deal with medicare but it's coming from different places and going to different places and therefore they find -- kind of ended up in a draw. >> for the president's health care plan, in order to fund it they assumed savings over 10 years of $716 billion for medicare. mitt romney called that a cut in medicare as if it was a cut in beneficiaries. it's meant to come from providers. however, what romney was saying is that if you take that much from providers, some of them are going to stop taking medicare parents. the trick for him is that paul ryan, his running mate, also assumed the same $716 billion. gwen: and i believe romney's answer to that was i'm the candidate. >> i'm the boss. we're going to put that money back into medicare. gwen: going into these debates we were all probably guilty of setting the expectations bar and it was pretty high for president obama. i think the polls before showed him like 51% thought he was going to win. 29%
one is deficit reduction, one is tax cuts. if tax cuts get in the way, we'll do deficit reduction. gwen: there's another number. $716 million to deal with medicare but it's coming from different places and going to different places and therefore they find -- kind of ended up in a draw. >> for the president's health care plan, in order to fund it they assumed savings over 10 years of $716 billion for medicare. mitt romney called that a cut in medicare as if it was a cut in beneficiaries....
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ever had to predict our forecast, because there's never been this level of uncertainty in terms of tax and spending policy really in our history. >> reporter: his organization, the national retail federation, is forecasting a 4.1% gain. but the international council of shopping centers is more cautious, predicting an increase of less than 3%. shoppertrak and deloitte fall in the middle. some of the differences can be blamed on conflicting economic signs. higher home prices and stock prices are boosting consumer confidence. >> people are always looking for something to give them a real sort of positive outlook, something to make them feel better. shopping is pretty much one thing to make most people feel better if they can. >> reporter: but job growth is weak, and food and gasoline prices are rising. with so much uncertainty, you can expect to see lots of holiday promotions. but tv ads will come later. >> in normal years, we'd already start to see some holiday advertising taking place now. but because of the political elections that are coming up and the campaigns, there's virtually no
ever had to predict our forecast, because there's never been this level of uncertainty in terms of tax and spending policy really in our history. >> reporter: his organization, the national retail federation, is forecasting a 4.1% gain. but the international council of shopping centers is more cautious, predicting an increase of less than 3%. shoppertrak and deloitte fall in the middle. some of the differences can be blamed on conflicting economic signs. higher home prices and stock...
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credits and tax rates. cutting tax rates gives you incentive to invest in plant and equipment which then allows you to hire people, because you're going to get to keep an extra amount of money on each dollar of profit you make. cutting tax credits does not hurt incentive, because tax credits are temporary and does not encourage investment. >> steve, i want to keep it on the simplification, because that's success i can identify with. i haven't my own taxes in a long time. the reason is, because it's just too complex. i'm not a small business. if i was a small business, i'd have to do devote hundreds of hours of time, a lot of money, to figuring the thing out. >> that's right. the irs has figured out, david, that last year we spent 6.5 billion hours filling out tax forms, the equivalent of 2 1/2 million full-time jobs. it cost the economy $300 billion a year. huge waste of brain power. so yes, tax simplification is absolutely essential. paul ryan, the vice presidential candidate, has an even better plan than
credits and tax rates. cutting tax rates gives you incentive to invest in plant and equipment which then allows you to hire people, because you're going to get to keep an extra amount of money on each dollar of profit you make. cutting tax credits does not hurt incentive, because tax credits are temporary and does not encourage investment. >> steve, i want to keep it on the simplification, because that's success i can identify with. i haven't my own taxes in a long time. the reason is,...
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the stimulus was one-third tax cuts, big payroll tax cuts. plenty of tax cuts. >> very true. >> and for small business tax cuts, too. >> export boom, exports on a monthly basis have risen 50% from their low in march of 2009. the difference is that we have an economy in which rising demand doesn't necessarily translate into more jobs instantly because we're so good at being productive. we use machinery and software computers. the other big difference between now and the '40s and '40 50s the rest of the world had basically destroyed the rest of its capacity in world war ii so we made everything we wanted, cars, t-shirts, socks, televisions, electronics. we made that all here in the u.s., were consumed it. we exported it because nobody else was doing it. we are not going back to a world in which we will have a monopoly on industrial production. in fact, it's the opposite. everybody else now hats hardware to make all the stuff that we did, so it is much more of a challenge to just say, you know, we're going to do these sort of three things that w
the stimulus was one-third tax cuts, big payroll tax cuts. plenty of tax cuts. >> very true. >> and for small business tax cuts, too. >> export boom, exports on a monthly basis have risen 50% from their low in march of 2009. the difference is that we have an economy in which rising demand doesn't necessarily translate into more jobs instantly because we're so good at being productive. we use machinery and software computers. the other big difference between now and the '40s...
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$2,000, while giving a tax break of $250,000 to multimillionaires. doesn't mitt romney understand we can't rebuild america by tearing down the middle class. priorities usa action is responsible for the content of this advertising. >> new york police are trying to track down a man robbing people at needle point. they say he carries a hypodermic needle. not clear what is in the syringe. he steals phones, and even held up a 14-year-old for his phone. all of the victims are teenage boys. the needle robber has hit 9 times. >>> four men are charged with a deadly shooting at a foreign wars post in florida. two people were killed and another critically hurt. the shooting happened after a fight yesterday in a parking lot where a motorcycle club was gathering for a charity ride. no word on what sparked the fight. >> a man who survived the shooting at the colorado movie theater is demanding a plan from the president and mitt romney on how to deal with gun violence. >> in the next four years 48,000 americans won't be so lucky, because they'll be murdered with gu
$2,000, while giving a tax break of $250,000 to multimillionaires. doesn't mitt romney understand we can't rebuild america by tearing down the middle class. priorities usa action is responsible for the content of this advertising. >> new york police are trying to track down a man robbing people at needle point. they say he carries a hypodermic needle. not clear what is in the syringe. he steals phones, and even held up a 14-year-old for his phone. all of the victims are teenage boys. the...